NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2010

 

Public Economics: Taxation and Social Insurance

 

David Card, Raj Chetty and Amy Finkelstein, Co-Organizers

 

July 27, 2010

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Skyline Suite

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

  

TUESDAY, JULY 27:

 

 

8:00 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

 

MORNING SESSION JOINT WITH LABOR STUDIES

 

 

8:30 am

Raj Chetty and John Friedman, Harvard University and NBER

 

Nate Hilger, Harvard University

 

Emmanuel Saez, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Danny Yagan, Harvard University

 

How Does Your Kindergarten Classroom Affect Your Earnings at Age 30? Long-Term Impacts of Schooling Interventions

 

 

9:20 am

Day Manoli, UC, Los Angeles

 

Andrea Weber, UC, Berkeley

 

Intertemporal Substitution in Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Policy Discontinuities

 

 

10:10 am

Break

 

 

10:30 am

Johannes Schmieder and Till von Wachter, Columbia University

 

The Effects of Extended Unemployment Insurance over the Business Cycle: Estimates from Regression Discontinuity Estimates over 20 Years from Germany

 

 

11:20 am

Bryce Millet and Emily Oster, University of Chicago

 

Do Call Centers Promote School Enrollment? Evidence from India

 

 

12:10 n

Lunch

 

 

1:30 pm

Henrik Kleven, London School of Economics

 

Camille Landais, UC, Berkeley

 

Emmanuel Saez, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

Taxation And International Mobility Of Superstars: Evidence from the  European Football Market

 

 

2:30 pm

Break

 

 

2:45 pm

Matthew Harding, Stanford University

 

Ephraim Leibtag, U.S. Department of Agriculture

 

Michael Lovenheim, Cornell University

 

The Heterogeneous Geographic and Socioeconomic Incidence of Cigarette Taxes: Evidence from Nielsen Homescan Data

 

 

3:45 pm

Marika Cabral, Stanford University

 

Caroline Hoxby, Stanford University and NBER

 

The Hated Property Tax: Tax Salience, Tax Rates, and Tax Revolts

 

 

4:45 pm

Adjourn